Ramon Ayala

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Ramon Ayala is a bajo sexto player from Donna, Texas, who currently resides in the Rio Grande Valley. He is the son of Pedro Ayala. His progressive style and technique has earned him the 2009 Bajo Sexto Player of the Year Award from the South Texas Conjunto Association. In 2009 he celebrated his 45th career anniversary.

Career

Ramon Ayala started playing the accordion in 1951. He learned to play the drums in 1954. In 1955, he picked up the bajo sexto after his father Pedro Ayala, El Monarca del Acordeón, showed him his first two chords. By 1956, Ramon Ayala and his brother Pedro Ayala Jr., who played the accordion, joined their father in Pedro Ayala y Su Conjunto. Since 1956, Ramon Ayala has gone on to record for over a dozen studios releasing 88 recordings in album, single, cassette and CD formats. Ramon Ayala has recorded with Freddy Fender, Paulino Bernal and Esteban Jordan, among others. To date, he has released 105 recordings.

Thanasis Papakonstantinou

Short biography

He is married, with two children. Papakonstantinou studied mechanical engineering in Thessaloniki, which he practices as well as being a musician. After military service (all males are conscripted in Greece), he had a spell of handcrafting traditional Greek musical instruments.

Now a Larissa resident, Papakonstantinou has established himself as one of the most original and prolific people in the Greek music scene. He writes music in the Greek folk idiom, stemming from his own recollections of traditional songs his parents sang while working in the field. He usually writes his own lyrics or uses poems. He has collaborated with numerous notable artists from the Greek music scene, such as Giannis Aggelakas, Melina Kana, Sokratis Malamas, Lizeta Kalimeri, Nikos Papazoglou.

In 2002, his song Nanourisma was featured in the film by Nikos Grammatikos O Vasilias (The King). The 2007 documentary The Horns of the Bull is dedicated to Papakonstantinou's work.

Plot: Against medical advice and without the knowledge of her husband Pat Solatano Sr., caring Dolores Solatano discharges her adult son, Pat Solatano Jr., from a Maryland mental health institution after his minimum eight month court ordered stint. The condition of the release includes Pat Jr. moving back in with his parents in their Philadelphia home. Although Pat Jr.'s institutionalization was due to him beating up the lover of his wife Nikki, he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Nikki has since left him and has received a restraining order against him. Although he is on medication (which he doesn't take because of the way it makes him feel) and has mandatory therapy sessions, Pat Jr. feels like he can manage on the outside solely by healthy living and looking for the "silver linings" in his life. His goals are to get his old job back as a substitute teacher, but more importantly reunite with Nikki. He finds there are certain instances where he doesn't cope well, however no less so than some others who have never been institutionalized, such as his Philadelphia Eagles obsessed OCD father who has resorted to being a bookie to earn a living, his best friend Ronnie who quietly seethes over the control wielded by his wife Veronica, and Veronica's widowed sister, Tiffany Maxwell, a recovering sex addict. In their fragile mental states, Pat Jr. and Tiffany embark on a love/hate friendship based primarily on what help the other can provide in achieving their individual goals. But they may reevaluate their goals as their relationship progresses.

Quotes:

Tiffany: Can we get through one fucking conversation without you reminding me that my goddamn husband's dead?

Tiffany: You love me?::Pat: Yeah, I do.::Tiffany: Okay.::[kisses him]

Tiffany: You're not a standup guy today, Pat!

Tiffany: I opened up to you, and you judged me.

Pat: The only way you can beat my crazy was by doing something crazy yourself. Thank you. I love you. I knew it the minute I met you. I'm sorry it took so long for me to catch up. I just got stuck.

Tiffany: You know, for a while, I thought you were the best thing that ever happened to me. But now I'm starting to think you're the worst.::Pat: Of course you do. Come on, let's go dance.

Tiffany: I was a slut. There will always be a part of me that is dirty and sloppy, but I like that, just like all the other parts of myself. I can forgive. Can you say the same for yourself, fucker? Can you forgive? Are you capable of that?

Officer Keogh: Hey, aren't you Tommy's widow?::Tiffany: Yes, I'm Tommy's crazy whore widow. Minus the whore thing, for the most part.::Officer Keogh: You want to get a drink sometime? [Tiffany turns around and walks away in disgust]::Pat: You shouldn't say that to her. She doesn't do that anymore.::Officer Keogh: What? What did I say?::Pat: She doesn't do that anymore.

Pat: You have poor social skills. You have a problem.::Tiffany: I have a problem? You say more inappropriate things than appropriate things.

Pat: I don't have an iPod. I don't have a phone. They don't let me make calls. I'm going to call Nikki.

Plot: The documentary portrays 30 years of HIV AIDS Gay and Trans Community in the Dominican Republic. The story has as its narrative six characters of different generations who are telling their story, they entered the Dominican gay, social networks, human rights and the challenges of a world with HIV-AIDS.

Plot: The town of Papayal is located in the Amazon jungle. It is ruled by violence, greed and vice. It has grown around mines where gold is extracted, and where mercury has severely destroyed the environment. Apart from the local bar and brothel, the settlers have nothing to do but work on the mines. Every once in a while a man called Fellini arrives and projects films. One day the mother of teenager Isabel and her lover steal the gold from miner El Gallego and flee from Papayal. The girl is forced to pay their debt, by working on the brothel. Isabel tries to escape, but she is caught by the police, and meets Cae, a young man who is bought by a trader to work in the gold mines. Back on Papayal, Isabel falls in love with Cae, who tells her that both her mother and her lover have been killed.

Genres: Comedy,
Taglines: ...they don't just steal cars. He's one wild stud with the sexiest gang of car thieves in the country! It's all in a night's work. You ain't no good, Robin Hood! Out-foxin' the politicians, Out-runnin' the police... Robbin' from the rich to give to the poor

Plot: Don Cesar de Vega, son of Zorro, is in Spain for his education. By way of education, he duels with Don Sebastian of the Queen's Guard (soon to be his rival for the hand of lovely Dolores de Muro), makes love, and befriends the visiting Archduke of Austria. But a quarrel ending in violence gives Don Sebastian the chance to dispose of his rival...by framing him for murder! Feigning suicide, Cesar escapes. Being a chip off the old block, a whip-wielding outlaw (this being his weapon rather than the sword) sets out to clear the name of Vega...

Keywords: anti-hero, based-on-novel, blackmail, bull, castle, character-name-in-title, dual-role, duel, faked-death, father-son-relationshipGenres: Adventure,
Romance,
Taglines: With a whip for a weapon Douglas Fairbanks gives more laughs, more real thrills, more high speed, in "Don Q" than in any picture he has ever made. Trigger Action And startling surprises feature this great Fairbanks picture. The finest adventure tale ever screened. The dashing, daring, Don Q bars all worry and you live in laughs and thrills. Fast as Lightning Swift action, tender romance, daredevil stunts, with lightning-like whip-lash, comedy nobody can resist, rapid adventure, high conspiracy, mystery plots, all are found in "Don Q"

Quotes:

Don Cesar de Vega: My father always said, "When you are in the right, fight; when you are in the wrong, acknowledge it."

Dolores de Muro: I shall see you again.::Don Cesar de Vega: You presume.::Dolores de Muro: I assume.

Don Cesar de Vega: My father always said, "When life plays a trick on you, play a trick on the trick."